To focus its efforts, Navy Region Southwest has adopted Sustainability as a major

guiding principal for strategic planning of mission and installation management. It is the

Navy’s obligation to ensure that we have all the resources needed, including training

grounds, to complete the Navy mission. Further, it is the Navy’s obligation to conserve

and protect these resources for use in the future and to support a healthy environment

in which the Fleet, Fighter, Family, civilian workforce, and their communities can live.

Sustainability connects our activities today to those of tomorrow with sound business

practices, personnel management, community relationships, and environmental

stewardship. We have learned over the past decades that simply conducting our

activities in compliance with regulations will not ensure that we will be able to sustain

our mission. We must strive to become systems thinkers if we are to benefit from the

interrelationships of the triple bottom line of sustainability: mission, community, and

environment. To sustain the future Navy, we must implement effective policies and

practices that safeguard America and its people in a manner that our nation expects of

us.

Navy Region Southwest will link the strategic planning cycle, the annual business plan

development, and the continuous improvement process of the Sustainability

Management System to sustain the Navy mission, uphold the community, and protect

the environment.